Short-Tailed Weasel

As most followers know, we love our mustelids. We’ve now seen every member of the North American weasel family, but there are a few members we haven’t been able to document and, up until this past summer, that included the short-tailed weasel. A unique opportunity for Simon to travel to the arctic abroad the Canada C3 expedition failed at yielding more than a distant view of a polar bear, but did allow for a sighting of the quick and hard-to-spot weasel, as it hunted in Canada’s second most northernly national park, Sirmilik. And for Simon, that was easily a fair trade.